Dr. Richard England
Dean, Pine Honors College & Professor of Philosophy Phone: 217-581-2017Email: rengland@eiu.edu
My ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Story
Selected Leadership Roles (off campus)
President, Honors Council of the Illinois Region 2018-19
Vice-president, Honors Council of the Illinois Region 2017-18
Member, Diversity Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) 2016-19
Member, Research Committee, NCHC 2011-14
Member, Science & Mathematics Committee, NCHC 2010-13, 2016-19
Co-chair & Conference organizer: Evolution and Religion, Clemson University SC 2009
President, Northeast Regional Honors Council 2005-6
Vice-President, and Annual Conference Organizer, Northeast Regional Honors Council 2004-5
Selected Leadership Roles (On campus - ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ)
Chair, Living-Learning Community Working Group
Team Member, Academic Visioning Workgroup, Vitalization Project (2016-17)
Decanal Representative, Committee on University Planning & Budget
Chair, Undergraduate Research Task Force
Decanal Representative, Making Excellence Inclusive Committee
Decanal Representative, Faculty Development Committee (2014-18)
AAC&U Campus Representative and Liaison
Education & Training
1997 Ph. D., History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto.
1992 M.A. in the History of Science & Technology,University of Toronto
1990 B.Sc., Majors in Zoology & the History of Science, Minor in English
Trinity College, University of Toronto
Conference Presentations
2018 North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL "Causation & the Cosmos: James Martineau & F. D. Maurice on Naturalism"
2015 National Collegiate Honors Conference, Denver CO “General Education, Assessment, and the Honors Curriculum”
2014 Invited Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary Society), Eastern Illinois U. “Missionary & Darwinian: John Thomas Gulick & Historical Contingencies”
2012 Invited Speaker, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA “Sustainability across the Curriculum: Building skills in Core Classes”
2010 “Role-Playing the End of the World: Game Theory, the Tragedy of the Commons, & Sustainability in the Honors Classroom,” NCHC, Kansas City MO
Community
(Selected Local Presentations)
2018 "The Metaphysical Society: Exemplars in a Polarized Age" Inaugural Final Friday Series Faculty Research Presentation, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
2017 “How to teach in Honors? Tips on Seminars across the disciplines?” Faculty Development Presentation, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
2016 “Mentoring Research, Scaffolding for Student Excellence?” Faculty Development Presentation, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
2015 Invited Speaker, University of Illinois Orthodox Christian Fellowship:“Science, Religion and Orthodoxy”
2011 “The Idea of a University in an Age of Assessment,” Fulton Faculty Colloquium, Salisbury University, MD
Publications
2017 “Censoring Huxley and Wilberforce: A new source for the meeting that the Athenaeum ‘wisely softened down.’” Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 17 (December)
2015 The Papers of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). Ed. with Catherine Marshall and Bernard Lightman, 3 vols. (London: Oxford University Press)
2012 “Recovering Controversy: Teaching Controversy in the Honors Science Classroom.” in The Other Culture: Science and Mathematics Education in Honors, eds. E. Buckner & K. Garbutt (Lincoln: NCHC), 73-83.
2011 Science, Religion and Natural Theology. Ed. with Jude Nixon (Salem State University) (London: Pickering & Chatto). Part of a series on Victorian Science & Literature.
2011 “The Helmholtz Maneuver, or The Idea of (Honors in) a University.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) 12.2, 59-63.
2010 “Honors Programs in Four-year Institutions in the Northeast: A Preliminary Survey toward a National Inventory of Honors.” Journal of NCHC 11.2, 71-82.
Professional Affiliations
National Collegiate Honors Council
The History of Science Society